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AT DOVER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the pier's head, musing, and with increase Last Line: "the shouts of folly, and the groans of sin." Subject(s): Dover, England | ||||||||
FROM the Pier's head, musing, and with increase Of wonder, I have watched this sea-side Town, Under the white cliff's battlemented crown, Hushed to a depth of more than Sabbath peace: The streets and quays are thronged, but why disown Their natural utterance: whence this strange release From social noise -- silence elsewhere unknown? -- A Spirit whispered, "Let all wonder cease; Ocean's o'erpowering murmurs have set free Thy sense from pressure of life's common din; As the dread Voice that speaks from out the sea Of God's eternal Word, the Voice of Time Doth deaden, shocks of tumult, shrieks of crime The shouts of folly, and the groans of sin." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT DOVER CLIFFS, JULY 20, 1787 by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES THE CLIFFS OF DOVER by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS DOVER CLIFF by F. WYVILLE HOME THE MESSAGE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ADMONITION [TO A TRAVELLER] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AN APRIL MORNING by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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